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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
WHAT NEWSPAPERS CAN DO.
How q Kansas Paper and a Kansas Town
Worked Up Boom.

Worked Up Boom.
A correspondent of the Atchison Cham
pion has the following regarding the
Wichita Eagle: 1t proves that news
paper can do much for town when it is
backed by the business men, and only
when it is sustained. We do not mean
by this that paper should be patronized
when it is undeserving, but if it is de-
serving and doing all in its power for the
good of the community, it should be held
up. Though business men Of Wichita
have done much for tue Eagle, and it is
to-day rich paper. they can never really
repay in dollars and cents the benefits it
has wrought.
The Wichita boom was started by
Colonel M. NJ Murdoch and his paper,
the Eagle. He worked the Associated
Press, filled the papers Of the country
every morning with something about
Wichita. The attention of the world vas
attracted to Wichita, and when people
came 10 look st the place they read more
about the boom in the Eagle. The bust
ness men caught on and crowded the
Eagle with advertisements, paying liberal
prices, directing c JloneI Murdock to leave
them out as often as he liked, aud ill the
space with boOm5 about Wichita, not
forgetting to send the bills around regu-
larry without regard to o omissions. Thus
encouraged the Eagle was atle TO laugh
at foreign advertisers who wanted stop
column next to reading matter" or $50
Gals among reading NATTER" and in
booming Wichita the Eagle doomed,
making the proprietor RIGA. The Eagle
now occupies three-story marble front
Office of it's own. The EDITORS sanctum
is in the third story, and is fitted up with
Wilton carpet, velvet chairs, rich cur
tains, pictures, elegant chandeliers, fres-
Going, etc, by grateful citi-
zens who appreciate what the
paper has done for the town. A sug-
gestive item of the Offices adornment is
8 stuffed bald eagle perched in the can
opy of the bay window, spreading it's
protecting wings over the enthusiastic
friend of Wichita as he writes Associated
Press puffs of the latest blacksmith shop
or rea' estate deal. OF course the boom
once started was taken up by the people,
who filled themselves with pluck and
wind and went to work to help the Eagle
and its editor. What Murdoch could not
think of the people suggested, and thus
the boom gathers force.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
WACO.
A Novel Suit for Damages-Two Men Re-
ported Drowned.
September

+ ported Drowned.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, April 22-Another curl
Gus case came up in the United States
District court here to-day. j. M. FL
kins, who lives in Era.h county, sues the
Pacific Express Company for $4,000 dam
ages. He alleges that in December last
his son, young man, died at Itasca, Hill
county; that plaintiff shipped the corpse
via Pacific Express to Hico, Hamilton
county; that when the body reached
Waco it was detained here, by the neglI-
genCe of the express company, twenty
four hours longer than necessary, thus
upsetting ali the arrangements for the
funeral, reaching its destination in
state Of decompo sitiOn, and thereby
causing much grief and mental anguish
to the young mans mother Bnd relatives,
who could not view the body because
Of the accommodation that had taken
place. Plaintiff asks for $25O0 actual
and $2500 exemplary damages. Judge
Mccormick after hearing the argument
of attorneys decided the case comes under
his Jurisdiction. \ sealed verdict was
given tonight and will not be opened
until tomorrow.
IL Is CuIISuG mere LO-uAy GudI
two men, whose names are unknown,
were drowned in the Brazos river
Wednesday, during the late freshet. The
tragedy occurred at Chalk Bluff, about
fifteen miles northwest of Waco. The
boat in which the men were
trying to cross the stream was
overturned and the men drowned
in view of people on the shore
who were unable to aid them. The skiff,
after fIoting down stream, was recovered.
On the stern Of the boat is the name
"Dan Dean" which may lead to the
identitiCtion of the lost men, whose
bodies were carried away by the whirl-
ing water and have not been recovered.
At Oak Lawn PARK yesterday q thousand
or more persons assembled 10 witness the
laying Of the corner stone of Baylor
Waco University, the unified Baptist ed
vocational institution OF Texas. Grand
Master of Masons a j. Rose of S2lado
conducted the exercises, assisted by the
local Masonic lodges. The gateway to
the grounds was beautifully decorated
with. red, white and blue, and from the
center is suspended the emblem of the
state, flve-COrnered star, and above it
two Texas flags are crossed. The stone
is of Italian marble, and upon it is en-
graved:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
INSURANCE. FRAUDS.
Startling and Damaging Disclosures Made
in Michigan.

in Michigan.
LANSING, MICH, April 22-The special
Joint mmittee of five to investigate the
mutual insurance companies of the state
presented their report to the house this
morning. They have examined seventeen
companies, and the disclosures are of q
most startling and damaging character.
Nearly all the assessment companies were
found rotten to the core, insuring any
one, no matter what age or state of health
or whether the person insured knew of
the transaction. The testimony taken
goes to show conclusivelY that nine out
of ten persons insured in these Compan-
les had made no application, nor were
they aware that such insurance had been
placed on their lives. The insurance was
generally taken out by beneficiary who
forged the signature to the application,
paid the assessments and pOcketed the
money paid at death. REPRESENTATIVE
Chapel of Corrunna is tangled up in an
unpleasant manner with one Of the COM
pRIfies, and many respectable men will be
subjected to damaging comments. An
other novel feature of the testimony
developed the fact doctors have been in
the habit Of taking out d graveyard
policy on the lives of their patients.
In one case g doctor acted as agent
for an applicant and medical exam
liner, and finally in giving proof
of death. He collected $500 from one
company and $1,000 from another on the
death of his patient. In many cases the
companies insured persons living in
Canada, Germany, England aud Sweden,
simply that the agent and officers might
reap the assessment percentages and the
beneficiary draw the policies.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
DALLAS.

A Religious DIsturber rrested-Oamsge
Suit for False imprisonment.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, April % William Stan
ton, who has been creating q religious
disturbance for several days, on com
plant from an Episcopal clergyman, was
arrested this evening on charge of lunacy
Phillip Cole, coIored. on @ charge of
burglary, was given two years in the
penitentiary.
Charles Biser, charged with embezzle-
ment from the GreutIi Verein Society,
was dismissed on account of an error in
the Indictment. After his acquittal, Mr.
Biser filed suit for $4,000 damages
against Deputy Sheriff Weed for false
Imprisonment. 1t seems that Biser was
on trial for another offence, and was &C
quilted. he sheriff had received ad-
vice as TO the embeZzlement, and after
his aCquittal in the former case,
had him detained some thirty minutes
till the warrant was issued upon which
he was formally arrested. For this de-
tentiOn, which Biser says was two hours
or more, he prays for damages.
Mrs. NJ. E. Stamper enters suit for di-
voTce from her husband, II. II. Stamper,
for cruel treatment, and prays for di
vision of community property. Pending
the decision, funds belonging to Stamper
on deposit at the City National Bank are
restrained by order of injunction.
Walter Hughes, gully of horse theft,
was sent up this morning for five years,
Charles Hesser, for theft of jewelry, two
years.
+. r. Lyles filed suit TODAY against the
Imperial Fire Insurance Company for
$2499, policy due for property destroyed
by ii e in January last.
John Found was arrested and jailed
this morning on charge of adultery.
H D. Andrews of Lampasas, while
crossing the street at 80 o'clock, was
run over by a hack, dislocatiBg his
shoulder. Internal injuries are feared.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Cancer C the Tongue.
TROUBLE WITH TIE REDSKINS.
The COmanchss land KiOwas Believed TO
Have Taken Up the Hatchet.

The COmanchss land Kiowas Believed to
Have Taken Up the Hatchet.
Special to the Gazette.
QUANAH, TEX, April 22.-The inteln-
gence that the Kiowa and Comanche In
dams are on the war path and that the
large .catteman, W A. Stinson and two
Of his employees were murdered by them
in Greer county near the Navajo noun:
tsius, has created great excitement
ing north border counties.
So Tar as your correspondent
is able to ascertain, the killing of StinsOn
and his men is only the beginning of q
general outbreak contemplated for some
time by that portion of the COmanche
tribe known as the "anti-leaSe faction"
10 which fully half if not a considerable
majority of the tribe belong. They con-
stilute the most savage and warlike pCr-|
ton Of the ComanChes. All those who
are not under the Immediate control of
the hslf-breed Chief, Quanah Parker,
have been from the first opposed to
the leasing Cf their lands to the white
cattlemen. The immediate cause Ct the
killing was 8 refusal on the part of the
NulLts " supply I've luhl 1uS W III DCclt
according 10 their demands; but i Is
evident from what can De learned
that this wss only hatChed up IS plaus-
i5le cause for II ing the first shots in q
long cOntemplat ed war ON their mutual
enemy, the white intruders upon theiI
soil.
The Iodians nave threatened to take
the lives of all the settlers ia Greer
county, and some Of our citizens are
sppUehen i've Of forays into the
country and towns bordering
on this side of Red River.
An Indian war in the Territory at this
day would necessarily be of snort dura-
ton, but during that brief period a vast
amount OF life and property might be de-
stroyed both in the Territory and the
border counties of Texas. 1t is more
than probable that if the Comanches and
kowas don their wsr-paint in earnest,
they will be Ta-enf0rced oy the Cheyenues
and Arraphoes, their neighbors on the
north, who would be only too glad of a
chance to do some lighting.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
A Narrow Escape.

SpecisI tn the Gazette.
PALESTINE, TEX, April 22.-While out
fishing twelve miles from town yester-
day, Bob Mills, a colored man, was
seized with commissions and fell headlong
into the lake where the water was six
feet in depth. a party Of gentlemen
standing by thought that Mills was up to
some prank and offered no assistance.
The man was nearly drowned when City
Marshal Girls Rogers coming on the scene
sprang into the water and dragged the
man to the shore where he recovered
after an hours suffering.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
GRinesYilla.

Special to the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, TEX, April 22.-Two of
the largest real estate transfers ever made
in this section were consummateA to-day.
Kansas City parties expended S43, 500 in
Gainesville dirt, and On Ohio company
purchased $84 600 worth OF farming land
in this county.
Sheriff Hill of Missouri left to-day with
one Jones, whom he arrested in the Ter
ritory yesterday and brought here last
night. Jones is wanted for murder COM
mitted in Missouri in March last.
John G. Underwood, aged eighty years,
and one of the oldest inhabitants of this
section, died last night. The deceased
came from Kentucky.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Rusk.
Special TO the Gazette.

RUsK, TEX, April pa fine rain fell
here to-day which was beginning to be
seriously needed. Crops are in good
condition, especially the fruit, which is
nearly equal IN value in this county to a
cotton crop.
An agent representing st. Louis
capitalists is here buying ore and timber
lands. He says he will buy $4,000 acres
and that the syndicate will Immediately
construct several iron furnaces in and
around Rusk. II they do, it will give US
a tremendous boom.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
THE ORIGIN OF APRIL FOOLS DAY.
Where tho Custom Oame From-Ehat They
Do in France and Scotland.
Washington Star,


Do in France and Scotland.
Washington Star.
Students Of folklore to whom Star
reporter applied were unsble to give any
definite information as to the origin of
the facetiOus observance peculiar to All
Fools day. The custom of sending
an unsuspecting person on some
bootless erTand on this day pre-
walls in many countries. In Scot
and q victim Of the trick is called
goWk, which has now the meaning 9th
fool ard cuckoo, and the mischievous
Grand sen1ing is termed "hunting a
gowk." In France the dupe is called an
"April-fish." One theory traces the Gus
tom to Noah, as sending out his dove on
such quest. 1t is also referred either
to the miracle plays representing the
sending the Savior from Annas to Gaia
phas, and from Pilot to Herod; and again
to the change in France in 1864 of New
Years day to January l, which left
April l destitute of everything but bur
lesque OF its former festivities. More re-
Gently an attempt has been made to iden
tify the custom of the day with the Hindoo
festival Of Hull, which IS celebrated in a
similar manner on the 81 of March. AS
no references to All Fools day have been
found in early English literature, the con-
clusion is that England and America de-
rive the fashion from France.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Unknown Man Killed.

correspondence Of the Gazette.
TEMPLE, Ten, April 2l-In the yards
of the Missouri Pacific Railway at this
place, last night, an unknown negro man
was terribly crushed by a passing train.
His death was almost instantaneous.
Nothing could be learned Of his home or
family, nor how he came to be on the
track when the train passed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Failure at BouhRln
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette. ~
BoNHAAI, Tex, April 22.-Quise an ex-
citement was caused In business circles.
today by the announcement OF the ass.
signment OF j. II. Ardenger, dry goods
merchant, whose failure was caused by
the depression of trade. 4. B. Scar
borough was named as his sssiguee. 1t
is thought he will pull through all right.
His assets are $40, 900; liabilities SIC, 00es
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23

TIE LIVER

Secretes the bile and acts like filter TO
cleanse impurities of the blood By ir-
regularity in its action or suspensions
of its functions, the bic poisons the blood,
causing jaundice, sch'ow complexion, weak
eyes. bilious didrrhea, a ianguid, weary
feeling, and many other distressing symp-
toms generally termed liver troubles. These
are relieved at once BY the use of BULLS
SARSAPARiLLAstbe great blood resOiVent.
Dr.. JoHN BtLL.-rfaye Teen for number of
years severely afflicted with nlercural headache
and duh, heavy pei, in my liver. Three bottles
OF Bulls SARsAPARILLA gave me more relief
than all the others combincd.F
T. IL. OWEsSS. Louisville, Ky.
Or. JOHN BULL have examined the pre-
scriptiOp for the preparation Of DE-. JOHN Bulls
|SARsAPARILLA, and believe REORGANIZATION to
be an excellent one, and well calculated to pro-
dHce an Alternative impression Or9thc system 1
have used it both in public and private practice
and think II the best articlcC Sarsaparilai in use
NJ. PYLES, NJ. D., Louisville Ky,
Res. Phys. 1T Lou, Marine Hosp.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
From Shreveport to Livingston

NAC0GDoCHRs, TEX April 22.-The
first rain for several weeks fell here to-
day. The indications are that 1t was gen.
ersl, though it was very light in town.
Farmers are three weeks late in planting
cotton, and everyone had the blues. Wire
reports say that the rain was good all the
way from Shreveport to Livingston, and
we may look for good prospects in few
weeks
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23

Maggie Stout, assistants. All 1.-THE above
teachers occupied positions in the school
last year. The early election of the
teachers in this way creates, in a great
measure, tenure in Office. The remain.
der of the teachers will be elected be-
tween this and he opening of school in
SeDtember
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Struck by Lightning.

special 70 the GaIette.
PARIS, TEX, April 22.-During thuu-
der storm this morning the tower of the
Hotel Peterson was struck by lightning
and badly damaged. Two men who were
working on the annex were IN the base
ment of the tower and were badly shocked,
but no one was dangerously hurt. though
it was narrow escape for several.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Teachers Elected.

Specialt to the Gazette.
Cisco, TEX, April 22.-At a regular
meeting of the school board yesterday
the following teachers were elected to
positions in the Cisco public schools
for the coming year: Professor
Charles T. Alexander, superintend-
ent; Professor Charles B. Smith,
and Misses Florence Griffin and
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
Norther at Baird,

Special to the Gazette.
BAIRD, TEX, April ga swift norther
is blowing here tonight which will, TO
some extent, retsrd the growth of vege-
tation for the present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23

Love, sweetness, goodness are the
fruits of 8 Contented mind and healthtul
body. These exist not where disorders
Of the stomach dwell. Morris Cascarine
is q sovereign remedy for such ills.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
ERECTED 1887,
AND DEDICATED TO
FEMALE
EDUCATION AND PIET1

EDUCATION AND PIETN.
After the Masonic exercises there were
orations, essays, recitations, musical eX-
ercises, etc, by the young ladies and gen
tlemen who are students Of the univer-
sity. The buildings will be of brick, four
stories nigh, of imposing architecture,
and cost something over 500, 900.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
SPERSIh

Variable appetite; faint gnawing feeling
at pit of the stomach, heartburn, wind in tie
stomach, bad breath, bad taste in the mouth,
low spirits, general prostratio1. There is
no form of disease more prevalent than DyS-
pepSia, and it can in all cases be traced to
an enfeebIed or poisoned condition of the
blood. BULLS SARSAPARZLA BY cleansing
and purifying the blood, tones up the digeS-
i've organs, and relief is obtained at once
DR.. JOHN BULL have no hesitation in saying
that believe your SARSAPARILLA to be the best
medicine manufactured for the cure OF SCrOfula
syphilis, and many other cutaneous and glandu-
lar affections, having used il with entire success
in numbers OF the above cases
JAMES MOORE, Louisville, KY.
DR.. JOHN Bull. I procured one bottle oil
BULLS SARsAPARILLA for my eldest son. Among
the remedies and various prescriptions that he
has tried for weak lungs and chest, this bOttle
has been of more benefit to him than all. il has
cured me Of Dyspepsia as we'll
JOHN ,. MCGEE, Horse Cave, Ky.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
KiDN EYS

Are the great secretory organs of
the body. Into and through the
Kdneys flow the waste fluids con-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23

A Religious DIsturber Arrested-OamRge
Suit for False imprisonment.
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-06
The Beauties % Japan.

The distinction which Japan enjoys is,
that while other countries have lovely
spots she is everywhere enchanting. The
whole length Of the island chain, !, 200
miles in extent, hardly presents a spot
that would not be a subject for n land
scape painter. The great central noun
tain range, with the overflowing cone
shaped Fujiama, rises almost out of the
ocean below to be lost to view in the
clouds above. Long transverse spurs Of
hills run out into the sea. Deep, warm,
rich valleys have been everywhere cut
through the mountains and hills, and
bordering the ocean fertile plains have
been formed from the weatherings and
washings of the great mountain masses.
Covering these plains, valleys, hillsides
and mountains is verdure that riots in
its luxuriance. Clear streams, from their
elevated sources, dash through narrow
gOrges, pour in cleaning cataracts down
precipitous mountain sides and whirl in
crystal eddies at the feet of overbranch-
| ing forest trees It is q climatic zone
where the flora of the cold north and
that of the heated south meet and inter-
mingle. The pine and palm, the maple
and magnolia, the beech and bamboo, and
the oak and the orange interlace their
branches in the same grove. Around all
the land are the waters of the great
ocean, from which soft winds temper the
heat of an almost tropic sun.-Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.